As a guitarist, composer and songwriter, Theodore Sandberg has shared his talent for musical story telling all the way from the cinema, to the classical concert hall to rock venues across Europe and the USA.
Theodore has composed music for various clients including The Barbican Centre, The BBC, The National Gallery, Courtauld Gallery, Ram Records, Silva Screen Recordings and Illuminated River.
He is also known as the former lead songwriter of critically acclaimed rock band, Acres. With over 10 million streams, Acres have toured Theodore’s songs to sold out shows across Europe and the USA.
COMPOSER
Theodore’s notable career highlights include orchestrating, arranging and producing music for OrchestRAM: An Orchestral Journey Into Drum & Bass - a series of sold-out performances in collaboration with Drum and Bass imprint RAM Records.
Theodore also has a passion for composing music for public audio-visual installations. Recent works include Illuminated River, an ambitious public art commission and the longest official artwork in the world, and providing music for Europe’s largest Halloween Festival, Derry Halloween as the Walled City of Derry, Ireland welcomes the spirit of Samhain through its historic gates for a festival like no other!
Theodore has ties with the Barbican Centre through their Silent Film series and has provided live scores for their yearly concerts since 2021.
Theodore Sandberg has composed scores for a number of award-winning films including Sealskin, Heavy Eyes, Porcelain, Matterhorn, and the upcoming thriller, Albion. The scores range from orchestral to fully synth-based. Theodore recently finished work on the anticipated horror film, A Serpents Touch, directed by award-winning director Leonardo Graziosi, set to release in 2024.
GUITARIST
Aside from his work for film and concert, Theodore is also known for his work as a songwriter, guitarist and touring artist, having written and produced a critically acclaimed album, 4 EPs and performed over 200 concerts across Europe in the process.
Theodore wrote and released the album ‘Lonely World’ (published via Silva Screen Records subsidiary, A Wolf At Your Door Records) in 2019 whilst active as the songwriter and guitarist in ambient rock band, Acres (a journey that took him around the continent for 7 years). The album received wide praise from numerous music magazines including Kerrang, Alternative Press and Rocksound. All singles from the album also received multiple plays on BBC Radio 1, Kerrang Radio and other prominent European radio stations such as a daily prime time spot on one of Italy’s largest radio stations, Radio Freccia.
Their music has also been featured on music television channels such as Kerrang TV and Scuzz TV and the albums lead single Lonely World quickly gained over 1,000,000 views on Youtube (having it’s music video shot in a snow-covered winter Latvia).
Before studying film music and composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Theodore worked under the guidance and mentorship of award winning composer, creative director and producer, Phillip Neil Martin. With Martin’s mentorship, he further developed his understanding of classical and electronic composition, alongside scoring for film.
As a performer, Theo picked up the guitar at the age of 8 and had completed his grade 8 by the time he was 12. Coming from a musical family (his father, an opera singer, filled the house with the music of Wagner, Puccini and Janacek from an early age), Theodore’s his interest in orchestral music developed as a teenager. He began taking lessons in orchestral composition with composer, David Reading at the age of 14. With David, he learnt how to create his own symphonic music virtually and understand the roles of each instrument in the orchestra. From this point, Theo continued to grow his love and knowledge for composition and production to this day.
